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s In Service Write Fo TimesSomewhere in Australia July 10, 1942 Cpl. Alfred 6, Farrar,ASN 11014377, f90th Bamb. Sqdn. lt;L), 3rd Ramb.Group (L) 5APO 922 c/o Postmaster,San Francisco, California.Dear Asa,Two issues of the “Times” arrived yesterday, one dated May 14th and the other the 21st, although they were almost two months old they were most welcome. In them I noticed the letters from some of the other boys from home that are in the service and where their letters were written. Horace Dow’s was the farth-erest away, his coming from Panama, so I thought that you might like to know that your little paper is being read much farther away than the Canal Zone, and that each word is literally eaten up. Where I am stationed it is just about' 13,000 from Bar Harbor, half way around the world, and what a change of worlds it is here. At the present moment we are in the middle of the Australia winter, cold, wet and generally disagreeable. It is hard to think that at home you are having your summer with bright skies and warm days while here in the same month we are having the exact opposite.You also send the “Times” to Gordon- Joy, and when my paper is lost or just doesn’t get here, he lets me read his. He is stationed oh the same field but in a different Squadron than I am in, but our paths cross occasionally.Well, Asa. I know you are a busy man at this time of the year so I’ll cut this short and just say again, thanks a million. ^Sincerely, Gleason Farrar-o-Camp Shelby, Miss.July 14, 1942 Dear Mr. Wasgatt:In one of the issues of your paper I was surprised to read a letter from my brother, who is in the navy. After reading it. I thought I would drop you a fewlines to letf you know how ? am getting along., This is my seventeenth month of service and I have traveled quite a bit here in the states. We were stationed at Camp Bland-ing, Florida for nine months, spent two months in Louisiana on maneuvers, went back to Blanding for a few days then up into Carolina for another month of maneuvers. After this we were sent here to Shelby, where we • have been since the middle of February. Now they plan to send us bafck to Louisiana for about another month and a half of maneuvers.I am in the same outfit with Reg Hanson, Bill Quimby, Charles and Jesse Fogg, Harold Harding, Jimmy Campbell, Ted Petrie and Scamp Tribou. We have been together all this time and hope to be for the rest of our enlistment.From what I here, Bar Harbor has changed quite a lot, but I know Jordan Ronald store is the same. Wish I could be back there now working like I used to, I miss it very much. My younger brother, Burnell, has taken my place and I am quite sure he can handle things there ’till I get back.Scamp Tribou and I chum around together quite a bit lately. We have met a very nice family, who live in a town about fifty miles from camp. We visit them every chance we get and they have practically adopted us as their sons. They have a daughter and apother girl that spend the summers there. We are beginning fo like the South more and more each day.I haven’t asked for a subscription of the “Times” because so many of the boys in the outfit get it and I always read one of theirs.It is about time for taps so must close now. Hoping this finds you and all my friends at home well and happy.Pvt. Squeak or Elliott SawyerHq. B’try. 43 Div. Art.Camp Shelby, MissP. S. I still use the nick-name Buster Larkin gave me.
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Bar Harbor Times
Bar Harbor, Maine, US
Thu, Jul 30, 1942
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